January 29

1845 – “The Raven” is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first story published by Edgar Allan Poe.

1850 –Senators Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas, with the support of President Millard Fillmore, introduce the Compromise of 1850, a set of 5 laws, which reorganizes the areas of different territories, the states of California and Texas and fugitive slaves in free states.

1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognize acts of valor by British military personnel during the Crimean War.

1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th state.

1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline powered automobile.

1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen Regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the last monarch of the kingdom before being overthrown less than 2 years later.

1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas, a member of the Kaw tribe, becomes the first American Indian U.S. Senator and later becomes the 31st vice president of the United States under Herbert Hoover.

1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.

1991 – 3 Iraqi Army divisions invading from occupied Kuwait, attack and temporarily occupy the Saudi Arabian city of Kafji, until engaged and repelled by U.S. and coalition forces.

2002 – In his State of the Union address, President Bush describes regimes that sponsor terror as an ‘Axis of Evil’, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction on several corruption charges

2020 – The administration of President Trump establishes the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.